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New Member
Ireland
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Can anyone help to identify my coin please... I have been told it's gold, but it has the SC on the reverse... There is also a figure with a heart over his head... I am not sure who the figure on the front is...  |
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Moderator
 United States
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 to the community Can you take a clearer picture? Can't tell much from these. |
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Valued Member
Canada
472 Posts |
Could be a Vitellius sestertius (or Padouan) with Mars reverse  Very blury pics...   |
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Valued Member
Canada
472 Posts |
Or Domitian...  Or Vespasian...  ... You can make out the legend and give the size of the thing ? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I can almost see the Domitian "Roman Nose"
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Valued Member
Canada
472 Posts |
I can almost see nose hair, but I guess that's not it  Yeah, probably Domitian  |
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Moderator
Australia
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I have been told it's gold, but it has the SC on the reverse... Definitely not gold, then. In the Imperial period, only bronze and brass coins has "SC" on them. "SC" stands for senatus consulto, "by order of the Senate". Bronze and brass coins were struck on Senatorial authority, while silver and gold coins were under the personal authority of the Emperor. And we're definitely going to need clearer pics. Pics that are this blurry don't help much, no matter how large they are. My main worry is that it does look very yellow; it's either been polished to death, or it's a reproduction. And in these pics, it's impossible to tell whether there's a reproduction countermark on it or not. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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New Member
 Ireland
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Thanks for the help guys.. Here are better pics..:)  |
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Valued Member
Canada
472 Posts |
Vitellius that is. A very, very clean (or cast) Vitellius...
Edited by Dionysos
11/28/2012 1:38 pm
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New Member
Ireland
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Thank you very much... Is it brass? Worth anything?
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Valued Member
Canada
472 Posts |
Looks a bit too much like the following, wich is fake   |
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Valued Member
Canada
472 Posts |
If it were real, even in that condition, given it's a Vitellius, it would be worth something. Not a fortune, but something. But these being widely forged, and this one having the look of it, I'm afraid its only would be worth his weight in brass (if it really is brass).
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Moderator
United States
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It's difficult to say for sure because it's so polished. But I bbelieve it's a cast copy.
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Australia
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Agreed; that's a match for the fake which Dionysius posted. The "heart-shape" of the remnant of the trophy is quite distinctive, and derives from the original Paduan fake which this fake is a copy of. Sorry.  Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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New Member
Germany
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Hey Dionisos,
your coins look really great. For a while already I'm looking for a picture of a Vespasian or Domitian coin, which I would like to use in my banking application (open source). Can I have your approval to use your image you posted here?
Do you perhaps have these fotos in a higher resolution also? That would be awsome!
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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Posted 11/27/2012 12:34 pm
